Abel Ferrara Quotes

You don't necessarily have to have your movie made to have success.

I think just getting a movie done is an accomplishment in itself.

What most people do is they make terrific films, one in three if you're very lucky, maybe one in five. So you just have to keep on, you have to get through the bad bits.

It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.

There is some pleasure in doing a movie and problem solving on a specific movie and getting a movie made, but once they are done, we don't look at them again, much less relate one to another.

For a film to be made is a small miracle. And sometimes it's a large one.

The thing is that when you make a film, it is such an intense experience. It's like being married.

Big movie or small movie, you make this thing, and then you show it to people, and you just hope they like it. You hope it works.

You're never done. You're not done until it's projecting in the theater.

No one's being precious about their music. They want the film to be great. And that was the huge lesson for me along the way to be a filmmaker. And yes, I'm leading the music department kind of thing and that responsibility with the music is with me, but really that job is one of many.

It's always a problem with television and with films, you always shoot things out of sequence, so you just take your best stab at every moment. You can't really - you'll drive yourself crazy if you dwell on the negative aspects of it or your shortcomings.

The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact.

When you're actually making a film, it's just people on your back all the time wanting stuff and you're constantly having to it deal with them. It's probably the most time consuming of all the arts, but I do love it because it is a great mix of visual art and music and writing.

I so love the animation process. Interesting, everything that I do in animation, the kind of crafting and skills of storytelling, totally work within the structure of the Disney nature films. In a weird way, I like to think that animation is like painting, and Disney nature is like sculpting. Animation you start with a blank canvas and you paint. With Disney nature, you start with a big block of imagery and you hone it down into your final story. Somewhere you end up with something kind of pretty to watch.

If people enjoy the film, it can be really intriguing to see what created that film, how each one of those unique components came together, who the people are who did it and what it meant to them to do it.

Some films go so well, and some films are disappointing. It's the beauty of the craft. You get it right, and you get it wrong. You have tremendous highs, and you have tremendous lows. Hopefully, you learn from them and become better, as you go along.

I'm dreaming about making movies for eight weeks, because it's a luxury. But time is money. That's the reality.

I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win.

I went to Art College and during the summer I made a movie with my brother. I got hold of a little camera, wrote a script and dragged my brother, Tony, out of bed to help me (which he did not like), so that we could shoot a film every day for six weeks. It was made for £65 and it was called Boy On A Bicycle.

You know what's it's changed is my appreciate for the art form of making cinema. I don't want to act as much as I want to tell stories. I want to be a part of the whole collective and pull all of the pieces together. That's what I love about directing.

From film to film, even documentaries, I was learning the medium and learning how to bring form into some kind of relationship with the content, how to work it, and above all, how to create some kind of order out of chaos.

Filmmaking is all about what we like to do on-screen. We have attempted that in the film. I have worked very hard to perform the character.